Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3996, 15 December 1875, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue xoooived at the Customhouse on sroods olsarod for consumption this dry was LI ,-tOl Os 2d. THE SHARE MARKET. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports for the week eliding 11th inst.:—Sales : Colonial Bank, 31s; Otago nud Southland Investment Company, 2-is; New Zealand ilnsurance shares, 62s ; National, 22s Od; Standard, 13s 6d. Buyers: National Insurance, 22s 01; Standard, 13j (id; New Zcnlaud, 60s: ; .iouth British, 51s (id ; Albion Browing and Malt Company, 10s; Forbury Park Company, LtO; New Zealand Shipping Company, L 3; Colonial Bank, 30s. Whit.elaw and Co. report sales of the following shaivs during the week:- -Standard Insurance, 13s (rJ ; National, 225; South British, 50s ; Colonial Banlcs, 31s. Buyers: National Insurance, 21s Cd; Standards, 13s 6d ; South British, 49s ; Colonial Banks, 30s; National, 73s ; Forbury Park Company, Lt2. _______ THE LABOR MARKET. Tilr Skene reports that, business iu the labor market is still very quiet; solely through the unseasonable weather. Feinnle servants are still short of the demand. Office and store hands quieteivthau usual. Wages:—Farm couples, L 75 to LOU; ploughmen, Ls2toL 65 ; shepherds, L7O; day labor, 8s and 9? same (no allowance for knowledge) ; house girls, L2» to L 10; hotel females, irom 15s to 30s per week ; men cooks, 20s to G.'s per week ; carpenter?, 12s and 13s per day; boyn' and girls, (Js to 10s per week ; wool olassers, 20s to 25s per day ; sheep shearers, 20s per 100 ; dairy hands and. station (with rations), 20s and 25s per week.